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'Framing Agnes' flips the script for trans stories

'Framing Agnes' flips the script for trans stories

It's Been a Minute vor 3 Jahren

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When the world never stops questioning you, do you refuse to
answer... or do you play along to get what you want? These
questions are at the heart of Framing Agnes, an award-winning
documentary about the legacy of a young trans woman in the 1950s
who was forced to choose between access and honesty. The film uses
the format of a talk show to re-enact interviews with the eponymous
Agnes and five other trans people – taken from case files from a
decades-old gender identity clinic at UCLA. Brittany Luse chats
with the film's director, Chase Joynt, and historian Jules
Gill-Peterson about the ways our society tells trans stories. They
also dive into the limits of representation, the power dynamics of
interviews and the nature of truth itself.

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